between trump and aj tish james. anything you say in this examination may be used in a civil proceeding and that could include a civil enforcement proceeding or a criminal action. do you understand that? i think. is that a yes? i don t know what i did wrong, but the answer is, yes, i do understand it. i don t know what i did wrong. donald trump then goes on to read a prepared statement in which he repeats some of the same many paranoid conspiracies and delusions we ve heard from him for years now, that he s the actual victim of a witch hunt by an out of control prosecutor, blah, blah, blah. here s a snippet. this is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. the there has never been another president or perhaps even another politician who has been persecuted, harassed, and in every other way unfairly treated like president donald j. trump. not anything we haven t heard before from the ex-president but what happens next is. here s trump repeatedl
welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just minutes from now former president donald trump will be less than ten miles from the u.s. capitol, addressing a crowd of his adoring supporters as for all intents and purposes the front-runner for the 2024 gop nomination. despite his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, trump has been loading in several polls of republican voters as he delivers the keynote address at the annual cpac gathering later on this afternoon, even though other gop contenders are warning the party to move on from trump. his maga faithful have come to dominate the republicans long-time event. at any moment they will release the results of their straw poll. trump has won the last two with florida governor ron desantis coming in second. both times desantis has not formally announced for 2024 and is skipping this gathering. kristen holmes joins us from cpac where they re gathering in maryland just outside the nation s capital. kristen,
lead lawyer of one of them. i helped my dad in the other four. still a part of preparing the case? yes, sir. still a part of gathering the evidence and putting it together for trial? in a criminal case, we didn t do much the gathering of the evidence. we took what law enforcement had gathered. putting it together for the criminal trial, correct? yes, sir. presenting evidence in court? yes, sir. giving jury arguments? i did the closing argument in one of them, yes, sir. did you ever have any cases that you prosecuted that went short of a jury trial, either pled out or were dismissed for some reason? you know, i m sure that at some point over between 1998 and 2021 that i took some plea, but as we sit here today i can t specifically remember that, and i don t ever remember working a case up for trial that didn t go to trial, but i m sure at some point in time i was involved in some level of a guilty plea or guilty pleas. you would agree with me that t
fbi to search mar-a-lago. the wall street journal that an informant familiar with the documents that trump had told investigators that there were more of them , more classified documents. this informant told investigators this after the national archives had retrieved the 15 boxes earlier this summer. enter the informant, a significant development. justice department officials as cnn reported, had doubts that trump was being truthful. this comes is the head of the fbi was silent when pressed on trump s baseless accusations of fbi agents planting evidence. christopher wray dodged the question. as i m sure you can appreciate, that is not something that i can talk about so i refer you to the department. ray was trump s hand-picked director. within the justice department, a major debate on whether they should speak out to the public about the search on trump s home. cnn is learning that some justice department officials believe that they should release a public statement. i
has to be more. if not, this doesn t make any sense. the biden administration is also under pressure amid calls to address why the federal raid was necessary. we have fox team coverage tonight. peter doocy with what biden officials knew about the events. jonathan serrie is at the scene of the raid outside of mar-a-lago. we begin with correspondent david spunt at the justice department with what top law enforcement officials are saying or not saying and some new breakdown of the news. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. i m at the epicenter at the of the investigation into the former president and as you pointed out not saying things are quiet from attorney general merrick garland and fbi director christopher wray across the street at the j. edgar hoover fbi building. both were briefed on this before it happened. they knew well in advance this was going to happen. let s give you a little bit of a timeline how things have played out. had here is what we know. the